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Author Hancock, Mary Elizabeth.

Title The politics of heritage from Madras to Chennai / Mary E. Hancock
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Pseudonyms; Abbreviations; 1. Making the Past in a Global Present: Chennai's New Heritage; Part 1. The Formal City and Its Pasts; 2. Governing the Past: Chennai's Histories; 3. Memory, Mourning, and Politics; 4. Modernity Remembered: Temples, Publicity, and Heritage; Part 2. Restructured Memories; 5. Consuming the Past: Tourism's Cultural Economies; 6. Recollecting the Rural in Suburban Chennai; 7. The Village as Vernacular Cosmopolis; 8. Conclusion: "How Many Museums Can One Have?"; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary In this anthropological history, Mary E. Hancock examines the politics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Once a colonial port, Chennai is now poised to become a center for India's "new economy" of information technology, export processing, and back-office services. State and local governments promote tourism and a heritage-conscious cityscape to make Chennai a recognizable "brand" among investment and travel destinations. Using a range of textual, visual, architectural, and ethnogra
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and index
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Subject Collective memory -- India -- Chennai
Cultural property -- India -- Chennai
Collective memory.
Cultural property.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Collective memory
Cultural policy
Cultural property
SUBJECT Chennai (India) -- Cultural policy
Subject India -- Chennai
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780253002655
0253002656
9780253352231
0253352231
1282103350
9781282103351
9786612103353
6612103353